https://geyser.fund/?search=Nostr&tagIds=2&sort=balance
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these guys facilitated my first start ... now, i totally even forget what it was for! wasn't a huge amount, they were running a grant campaign, maybe related to https://github.com/indra-labs/indra
iirc the funding value was around $500 in fiats at the time, about a year ago maybe, could have been sooner
i did a lot of work on that codebase but it languishes because it needs more work and testing, and probably a hella refactor, it was not terrible as it was, included a whole bitcoin-centric SHA/secp256k1 cryptosystem for the connections between peers and clients
yeah, it was over 20k lines of code, all written by me between october 2022 and 23
also, it was initially seeded by a nice irish chap who put up with me sharing his cambridge house for some time and i made the venture to help him (and me) move to madeira before his budget on my sponsorship was expired
much respect and thanks, it was some crazy hard stuff at times and in the middle of it all i started to have all kinds of kidney/diabetes problems that really broke my productivity, and made me quite difficult to be around, many nostriches who know me from december last year would be able to relate
Nah. I have no idea what you are talking about. You've always been a little sunshine. 😉
yes, a hot mess, exactly
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no but seriously, geyser was important in my life around a year ago, and if you go back to their history of grants the first round my indranet project won the first "second prize" from it (just ask nostr:npub13v9zh6hka0heyh5w0ru0ptdyrauf3wx6w25fwxufnz9l0ptax60sg63rka he and i have had much dealings) and i bumbled onto that via the #dvadesetjedan group that i found from twitter, on discord, they pointed me to geyser
i hope some day i will be able to advance the indranet concept, really, it's just the execution of a network transport built on top of the source routed onion TLVs used by lightning
i kinda gave up on it not just because i ran out of funding but because of the complexity of network intelligence (p2p discovery) as i'd taken a shortcut to use libp2p but realised that it introduced a scaling limit
ok, maybe that limit wasn't that big a deal, especially if it was just like bittorrent's mainline DHT, but it's not, libp2p puts you basically on the backbone of the same network routing protocol as IPFS which also has the scaling problem
something me and my sponsor were getting excited about was building a p2p mesh that didn't require nodes to have a full network inventory in order to function, so that clients could send messages and relays didn't have to know who they were forwarding to, necessarily, this is a critical scaling feature and is also why bitcoin has over 20k replicas, which is far more than libp2p/ipfs could ever handle
it was in the realisation of this problem that i was near the end of my sponsorship and i started getting sick
Geyser has an interesting combination of crowdfunding and grants, that we prefer to the OnlyGrants stuff. They sort of amplify crowdfunding with grants.
That's where we're going to setup our funding page, after we launch Alexandria. OnlySats could contribute there, but who knows if they do that sort of thing.